| bigjon said: I thought it was more fitting than Nelson Mandela... |
Nixon is probably the only recent political figure one could legitimately compare to Hitler. That guy was probably a little nutty.
It is moderately appropriate for Bush simply because the Bush administration has changed the power dynamics of Washington by shifting so much power towards the executive branch and have been extremely bad about keeping everything secretive. Even the Republicans in Congress are sick of the power struggle over even minor details.
Both Obama and McCain will do a much better job bridging the gap between Congress and the executive branch.
But Bush certainly has not reached anywhere near that same level of authoritarianism even if he has met some of the prerequisites.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
